Winter Solstice 2025

~ Ballads and Songs ~
O’er the Tides, the Wullver Bides: A Shetland Ballad of Love by Hana Xen
Song of the Will-O’-Wisp by Andrea Gustafson

~ Columns ~
Christopher Greiner — Fairy Shamans in Hungarian and Balkan Folk Beliefs: A Brief Introduction
Kelly Jarvis — Once Upon A Bard: Shakespeare’s Good Neighbors
Gerri Leen — Art Gallery: An Interview with Lisbeth Cheever-Gessaman

~ Essays ~
Dwarfs, Werewolves, and Marie de France: On the Intersection of Language, Minerals,
and Fairy Tales
by Dr. Neile Kirk
Narnia, Faerie Magic, C.S. Lewis’s Visions, and His Prejudice by Francesca De Grandis
Shadow Queen: Finding the Bad Fairy in Lanval by v.f. thompson
“Swift in Speed and With Pointed Ears”: In Search of the Other Folk by Chandreyee Chakraborty

~ Interviews ~
Gerri Leen, author of Over It: Goddesses Who’ve Reached Their Limit
John Shirley, author of Ghost Confessions and The Voice of the Burning House

~ Poetry ~
As keen as love betrayed, the thorns of broom (The Queen of Elphame’s Villanelle) by Manuel W Balaguer-Cortés
Banshee by AJ Dalton
Beware the Wild Hunters’ Ride by Jackson Weller
The Contract of the Good Neighbors by David Anson Lee
Dance of Fire Fairies by Murray Eiland
Daughter of Thistle & Gloam by Gabrielle Munslow
Don’t Turn Your Back on the King by John Shirley
Faerie Bride by Ennis Rook Bashe
Faery’s Call by Scott J. Couturier
fairy wands by mike sluchinski
Fiery by Simon MacCulloch
Find the Fern by Devan Barlow
Invoking Winter by Ashley Dioses
I Wait by Deborah Sage
Jack’s Land by Adam Bolivar
Letters From Neverland by Dr. Sara Cleto and Dr. Brittany Warman
Lords and Ladies by Wes Viola
A Rainbow by Twilight by KA Opperman
Redcomb by Denise Dumars
Samhain by Patricia Hemminger
The Songs the Forest Sings by Ngo Binh Anh Khoa
Thomas and the Hell of Remembering by Clark Morrow
To Hanna by Clay Franklin Johnson
What Water Says by Michael Payne
Where the Queens meet at Hawthorn by Jane McCarthy
Whispers of the Good Neighbors by Ria Cabral

~ Prose Poetry and Fiction ~
The Clinic of Doctor Night by Simon Bleaken
The Dead Wife Among the Fairies by Jeannette de Beauvoir
Forests Haunted by Holiness by Felix Lilly
The Goodfellow at Dawn by Maxwell I. Gold
The Hunting of the Fomorian by Daniel Stride
The Iron Wings of Orkney by MD Smith IV
The Kid and the Lamb by Alfie Court
Pink Moon by Stephanie Valente
The Price Paid in Full by Hesper Valentine
Salt-water Haibun by KB Nelson
The Stirrup-Cup by Laurence Raphael Brothers
To Keep Faith With a Troll by Rose Strickman
What Waited for Us in the Garden by Richard Simonds
Where Do Cloud Women Go Dancing by Sergej Pavlović
Yule Minutes of the United Council of Witches Precinct 217 deciphered by Lyri Ahnam

~ Recommended Reading ~
The Good Neighbors: Children’s Books, Novels, Nonfiction, and Poetry

~ Reviews ~
Complete and Total Honesty by M Anne Avera [reviewed by mk zariel]
Crown Tourney: Ten Tales of Deadly Damsels, Cursed Castles, and Edged Weapons by Tansy Rayner Roberts [reviewed by Rebecca Buchanan]

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